The Team

EN - Harald from Denmark, Jackie from Germany and Alica from Belgium are the members of a European Joint Investigation Team (JIT), set up after three bodies are discovered in Copenhagen, Berlin and Antwerp – all apparently murdered by the same person. The team soon discovers that there is more to the murders than meets the eye.

TV series Marsman, directed by Mathias Sercu and Eshref Reybrouck, has been selected for Official Competition at this year’s FIPA, the Festival International de Programmes Audiovisuels held in Biarritz, France, from 20-25 January. Also showing is top European crime series The Team, which is a co-production with Flanders. Lieven Corthouts’s cross-media documentary project Emergency Exit has been selected for Smart FIP@, while Before The Last Curtain Falls – a co-production with Flanders – is also part of the programme. Finally, the Screen Flanders-supported BBC series The Missing is to receive a special screening.

Eleven international series are competing in FIPA’s Fiction Competition this year, including Flemish series Marsman, which won a Prix Italia at the end of 2014. A tragicomedy, it follows 40-year-old Nico Marsman who struggles to find a way to get his life back on track.

Key Flemish stars Veerle Baetens (The Broken Circle Breakdown) and Koen De Bouw (The Verdict, The Memory of a Killer), as well as Filip Peeters (Salamander) and Hilde Van Mieghem, are to join the international cast of The Team, a new European police series that also stars Lars Mikkelsen (The Killing). Co-produced for Flanders by Ghent-based Lunanime, the series will be partly shot in Flanders.

The Team follows the members of a European Joint Investigation Team. The unit of experts is set up after three dead bodies are discovered in Copenhagen, Berlin and Antwerp – all apparently murdered by the same perpetrator. The team will soon find out that there is a lot more to these murders than meets the eye.